Poulin to Captain Canadian Women’s Hockey Team at Olympics

The Canadian women’s
national team leadership group (from left to right) Jocelyne Larocque, Brianne
Jenner, Marie-Philip Poulin and Meghan Agosta. (Dave Holland/Hockey Canada Images)

Canada’s golden
goal scorer, Marie-Philip Poulin will lead the national women’s hockey team at
the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

“It’s an honour
to be selected to lead this group at the Olympic Winter Games and to wear the
‘C’ after so many inspirational leaders that have come before me,” said Poulin
(Beauceville, Que/Montreal, CWHL). “This is a special group of 23 players and
we’re excited to hit the ice together for the first time in South Korea in a
few days.”

Poulin, who
scored the game-winning goal in both the gold medal finals at the 2010 and 2014
Olympics, has captained the national team since the 2015 IIHF Women’s World
Championship. Also chosen for the leadership group as Canada tries to capture
their fifth-straight gold medal at the Olympics is three-time Olympic
gold-medallist Meghan Agosta (Ruthven, Ont.) and 2014 gold medallists Brianne
Jenner (Oakville, Ont./Calgary, CWHL) and Jocelyne Larocque (Ste. Anne,
Man./Markham, CWHL).

“This is a
collaborative group of leaders that continue to inspire and unite our team
season after season,” said head coach Laura Schuler. “We’re confident in the
abilities of this group and we know they will be successful at guiding the many
layers of leadership that we have throughout our team.”

Poulin is the
fifth player chosen to lead Canada’s national women’s team at the Games.
Caroline Ouellette (2014), Hayley Wickenheiser (2010), Cassie Campbell (2006,
2002) and Stacey Wilson (1998) also captained Canada.

The women’s
hockey tournament opens on Feb. 10. The gold medal game will be played on Feb.
22.

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